Throughout my career, any time I face trauma, adversity or fail, I say to myself “just keep going”. Those three words have become a mantra in my life and my way of persevering despite hardships. When you’ve been through so many struggles, you’re prepared to handle future ones. After countless rejections from selling my services, […]

There are countless articles written about the importance of doing what you love and it’s how many of us define success. Most successful people I interview recommend “following your passion”, but there’s a dark side that is never discussed. When you love your work, you may perform better and be happier, but it simultaneously becomes addictive […]

People switch jobs, and full careers, many times in their lives. Many of these changes happen early in our careers. The average American has about twelve jobs between 18 and 50 and nearly half of those changes are between the age 18 and 24. This year alone, almost three out of four employees are looking […]

People want to have the money, rewards and recognition before they put in the work that makes all of that naturally happen. They want the output before they focus on the input. The truth is that sometimes you have to fail many times before something works out and if it does, you may not even […]

To achieve our greatest potential, we need to have a delicate balance of both persistence and patience. It takes years, even decades, to accomplish major goals like building a scalable company, writing a book, getting married and traveling the world. In order to achieve these lofty goals, we have to set daily, weekly, monthly and annual […]

In our society, everyone is in a rush to be successful. We want instant gratification from everything we touch, see and feel. We desire to be fulfilled, whether that has to do with relationships, riches or even fame. The problem is that you can’t get rich quick and it takes literally years to build anything […]

When I was growing up I never traveled outside of the United States. As an only child, growing up in a sheltered community and being late to mature into adulthood, I avoided foreign travel. Now that I’m older, I’ve been traveling to many different countries from Thailand to Spain to Israel. As I type, I’m […]

The term “selfish” in every dictionary has a negative connotation. In Dictionary.com the definition reads: “lacking consideration of others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure”. I’ve been thinking a lot about the art of being selfish and what it really means especially in our society today. Despite new technologies that have eaten […]